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Why can a dog smell things that you cannot smell at all?

Your dog freezes at the door, nose twitching, and somehow knows a fox trotted past hours ago. It can sniff out one biscuit hidden anywhere in the whole house. You, standing right beside it, smell nothing at all. How can a dog's nose be that much better than yours?

An extreme close-up of a dog’s damp black nose and muzzle.
Photo: Gabriel Fernandes from São Paulo, Brasil · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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